One Community welcomes Eng. Brian Muigai Mwaniki to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Eng. Brian is currently pursuing his masters in MSc Engineering from the University of Bath. He previously obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. Brian has over 10 years of civil/structural engineering experience across vast project types. He has demonstrated success working in fast-paced environments and on complex projects requiring efficient and effective solutions to challenging problems. He believes in efficiency with regards to use of resources, doing more with less, and contributing to sustainability with resources and infrastructure as a path to having both a positive impact on the environment and the economy. As a member of the One Community team, Brian is helping complete the structural engineering details for The Ultimate Classroom. He is also helping lead a team of structural engineers to complete other tasks assigned.

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One Community welcomes Ramya Ramasamy to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ramya is a passionate individual aiming to become a skilled full-stack developer, with prior experience in Test Automation. Beginning her career as a quality assurance engineer, Ramya gradually transitioned into Test Automation due to her ability to identify areas for improvement in established practices and her keen interest in programming. Working as an automation engineer helped Ramya discover her love for problem-solving and creating things. Taking a break from the industry, she pursued and graduated recently from the Computer Science graduate program at IU Bloomington, specializing in Algorithms, Software Development, and Distributed Computing. She thrives in dynamic environments that constantly evolve and push her boundaries. Her goal is to work with modern web development frameworks, databases, and contribute to a team that tackles the various challenges associated with them. As a member of the One Community team, Ramya is helping with debugging and the development of the open source Highest Good Network software.

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At One Community, we’re dedicated to leveraging the abundance of Earth through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. As an all-volunteer organization, we’re committed to doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” Our model is designed to become self-replicating paving the way for a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 11th, 2023 edition (#547) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Leveraging the Abundance of Earth
One Community Progress Update #547

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is leveraging the abundance of earth through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Julia Meaney (Research and Web design) completed another week of assisting with research and web design. Julia focused on the City Center Interior Design Cost Analysis Spreadsheet, conducting thorough reviews of the “Room 4 – Retro Vogue” and “Room 5: Tranquility Room” tabs, utilizing comments for feedback, making necessary adjustments, and addressing grammar and format issues. She also cross-verified listed dimensions with linked product pages. Subsequently, Julia shifted her attention to the review of the “Room 5 – Tranquility” PowerPoint, generating a feedback PDF and proposing various enhancements through comments. In addition, she dedicated time to the Murphy bed Instructions PDF, resolving integrated feedback comments and meticulously examining all document and site links within the PDF while supplementing final feedback comments. Conclusively, Julia contributed to the DIY on Earth Dam Design & Construction Disaster Mitigation Content Google Doc by editing newly acquired research material for precision and clarity, using comments to provide feedback and seek clarification, and following up on prior unaddressed comments for comprehensive document refinement. See the pictures below.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week of assisting with Earth Dam Design and construction for Water Retention, Pond, and lake Creation. Loza diligently incorporated inspection guideline points sourced from reference documents into the project. The focus of the effort centered on the critical inspection of the upstream slope of an embankment, a pivotal aspect in ensuring its overall stability and safety. Loza’s work encompassed the compilation of comprehensive inspection guidelines specifically tailored for evaluating the integrity of the upstream slope. These guidelines included essential information on the potential causes of failure, various failure modes, and corresponding mitigation actions, all of which were systematically presented in a structured table for easy reference and implementation. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is leveraging the abundance of earth through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) completed the design and modeling of a visitor room for the Duplicable City Center. Amiti made significant progress in the development of the Zen-Garden visitor room within Duplicable City. Drawing inspiration from the meditative tranquility inherent in the ancient concept of “Zen,” She focused on creating a spatial experience reminiscent of a Japanese tea room. Her contributions encompassed material selection, furniture design, color coordination, and the curation of a suitable paint palette. Additionally, Amiti generated initial renders for the room, demonstrating her comprehensive involvement in the project. See below for the picture.

Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) prepared and helped develop the Duplicable City Center. Arvindh diligently fulfilled the “Learn the Team Management” action item as part of the One Community Global Manager Training. He completed his manager training. See below for the pictures.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles focused on the ongoing development of the Water Recycling Net-zero Bathroom Design tutorial. Notable updates included revisions to the Barrels Water Storage System Theory and Analysis section, as well as augmentations to the Net-Zero Bathroom Stormwater Storage Design, encompassing various stormwater storage tank types, submersible pumps, and the calculation of drainage section dimensions and geometry, predominantly presented in HTML-coded equations. Charles also expanded the resources section and refined the top-level Table of Contents. The upcoming week will see further attention dedicated to refining the Tables of Contents, followed by continued work on enhancing the Water Recycling Stormwater Recycling segment. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Julio dedicated his efforts to advancing the design work for hub connectors in the fourth row. Additionally, he organized meetings with both Yiwei and Justin, a newly appointed team member. Justin’s role will primarily involve contributing to design enhancements and providing support to Yiwei during the analysis phase. Looking forward, Julio remains committed to further progressing the development of the hub connector designs. The pictures below provide a glimpse of the images.

Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Justin concentrated on the creation of a custom 12×2 LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) beam and the assignment of its material properties for the structural analysis of a dome featuring generated frames, excluding connectors and bolts. The primary focus was on determining the maximum displacement and stresses within the structure to facilitate a comparative assessment with a conventional dome structure. Additionally, Justin initiated work on evaluating the wind load impacting the dome. See some of the images below.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Design) completed another week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. Ranran diligently addressed feedback by resolving various issues in both the Lumion and SketchUp models. She successfully rectified the floor texture on the mezzanine and made necessary adjustments to the structural material applied to the columns. Additionally, she introduced a shower adjacent to the swimming pool area to enhance the model’s realism. Moreover, Ranran dedicated time to refining the green and path areas, ensuring seamless and realistic texture transitions between them for an improved overall representation.  Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with Aircrete Engineering. Yiwei organized the group meeting for the Mechanical Engineer team, introducing the new member, Justin. The team gained a comprehensive understanding of the project plan and established an effective schedule for the upcoming weeks. Additionally, Yiwei dedicated time to assisting Julio in designing hub connector assemblies to enhance project progress. See some of this work in the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is leveraging the abundance of earth through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued our review of the open-source designs. We diligently undertook the task of editing and reviewing the Food Rollout Infrastructure document pertaining to the One Community website updates. The specific sections addressed encompassed Frequently Asked Questions, Summary, as well as Garden Establishment and No-till. To enhance clarity and facilitate collaborative feedback, comments were thoughtfully incorporated into the document, and notable changes were distinctly highlighted. See the pictures below that are related to this.

Gregory Quach (Data Enterer for Chef/Culinary) continued working on the Transition Kitchen, focusing his efforts on Google Sheets tasks. His primary focus centered on the comprehensive analysis of the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out project. An essential aspect of this endeavor was the meticulous integration of the aggregate array formula function, a critical tool for optimizing column addition, particularly in the context of creating efficient shopping lists. Although faced with initial challenges, Gregory demonstrated his problem-solving skills by resolving issues and successfully implementing this function within Google Sheets. Currently, he continues to work on the task of generating 15-day shopping lists as part of his ongoing contributions to the project  See the images below for some of his work.  

Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) completed the work of assisting with Highest Good Food. Shengguang focused on the primary structural components, specifically the supporting column members of the vermiculture device. The objective was to assess their safety performance in practical applications, given the inherent vulnerability of slender beam members to buckling failure under significant compressive loads. Critical load values for these members were derived through mathematical analysis. While a realistic evaluation of safety factors, incorporating actual physical parameters such as the stiffness ratio of the supporting material and the weight of collected waste, is nearing completion, it remains a work in progress. Any potential suboptimal design aspects will be addressed through calculated solutions once identified. In parallel, the installation of Solidworks encountered technical difficulties, as evidenced by an accompanying image from Dropbox. Substantial time was allocated to troubleshooting, including self-debugging efforts and communication with Solidworks’ customer support service, though these endeavors yielded no resolution. If the issue persists, consideration may be given to investing in a new PC as a potential solution to resolve the installation challenges. See the images below for some of his work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is leveraging the abundance of earth through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week, Anitta George Kunnappilly (Research and Management Volunteer) completed work helping with The Ultimate Classroom. Anitta effectively conducted reviews for PR 546 and PR 547, with her primary focus dedicated to ensuring compliance with the newly established PR protocol. Her meticulous examination determined whether the PRs adhered to the updated protocol, and she provided thorough reviews to fellow team members. Furthermore, Anitta contributed to the enhancement of the HGN spreadsheet by incorporating the relevant PR numbers and introducing new volunteers. Demonstrating exceptional dedication, Anitta has already commenced preparations for her upcoming week’s tasks, aiming to deliver the best possible reviews for the team. See below for pictures related to this work. 

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is leveraging the abundance of earth through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed 71 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member conducted Highest Good Network PRs testing. She reported a bug related to unspecified text in the “i” popup on Profile, Permission Manager, and Weekly Summary Reports pages (issue 1025, linked to 1141). Furthermore, she reported a new bug related to the resetting of existing passwords, raising the question of whether users should have the option to view their entered password. She also recorded a video highlighting a bug where users who initially type more than 50 words but then delete some of them can still save summaries that contain less than 50 words.. See the image below to view this work. 

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) helped analyze video errors identified by Google and related web core vital LCP metrics. The pictures below show some of this work.

Megan Morelli (Funding Research and Acquisition) focused on finalizing a grant proposal by adding necessary components like a title page, cover letter, and supplementary document templates. She actively pursued a competitive grant opportunity and conducted research on potential partner organizations and funding sources, primarily through interactions with the Regeneration Foundation. Megan also continued her efforts to establish connections with other foundations for potential partnerships and funding opportunities. See below for pictures related to this work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Team Manager), Anitta George Kunnappilly (Research and Management Volunteer), Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant and Team Manager), and Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support). Alyx worked on collages for blog numbers 543, 544, and 545, involving tasks such as unzipping folders, copying summaries, and creating collages. Subsequently, preparations for blog 546 were made, and early work for the upcoming week was initiated. Anitta’s focus was on reviewing PR 546 and PR 547, adhering to the new PR protocol, and providing comprehensive reviews to team members, alongside updating the HGN spreadsheet with PR numbers and new volunteers. Anitta also began preparations for the following week’s tasks. Jamie’s week was marked by submitting summaries to the group’s shared Google document, transferring them to her webpage, and crafting engaging collages highlighting key team members. She efficiently managed the administration team’s activities for organizational cohesion. Ola dedicated her week to thorough reviews of Anitta’s work, familiarizing herself with PR Review team tutorials, and aiding in folder organization. She also contributed by reviewing and offering feedback on weekly summary reports for the NON-HGN team, in addition to creating collages for the weekly blogs, adding a visual dimension to reports, and enhancing overall quality. The collage below shows some of this work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Expressers Team’s summary this week, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Gary Balogh (Software Engineer), Joyce Liu (Software Engineer), Yuri Andrade (Software Engineer), Veronica Cheng (Software Engineer), Aaron Persaud (Software Developer), and Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer). The team accomplished several key tasks. Gary conducted comprehensive reviews of multiple pull requests, each introducing various new features and improvements, addressing issues, and enhancing performance. Yuri focused on enabling the Administrator account to add new Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) items, involving in-depth investigations and code modifications to grant Administrator-level permissions. Veronica played a pivotal role in addressing permission management issues by testing and verifying functionality, completing testing for numerous permissions, and working on adding permission descriptions. Aaron tackled the recurring issue of last week’s summaries not moving, resolving it through code fixes and addressing linting errors. Olga undertook a comprehensive review of HGN phase 2 documents and initiated the design process for the Project Details page, establishing the structure for its components. Joyce spent the week improving unit tests and conducting QA testing for the HGN app. She also checked phase-2 projects for any tasks requiring her attention and reviewed phase-2 documentation. Lastly, Tim, handling managerial responsibilities, initiated PR1262 for implementing improvements and bug fixes in the Badge Summary modals and began work on an entry point route and login page for the new Building Management Dashboard, a project his team is leading. The collage below shows some of this work.

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One Community welcomes Jiangwei Shi to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jiangwei is a seasoned Full Stack Engineer with extensive internship experience and proficient in cutting-edge technologies such as React, Node.js, and MongoDB. He has an ability to rapidly grasp new information and seamlessly integrate it into his work, thrives on tackling fresh challenges, and enjoys mastering new concepts. As a member of the One Community team working on the open source Highest Good Network software, Jiangwei first applied his skills to apply the Tasks Tab time log format to the individual timelogs. Now he’s working on crafting new features.

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One Community welcomes Aaron Persaud to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Aaron attended the University of Waterloo and graduated with a Bachelor of Mathematics, minoring in Computer Science. He has over 2 years of software development experience and believes in using his software development skills to make a positive change in the world. He has worked on a variety of projects such as automating online forms, data analytics for car manufacturing and overage tracking using technologies in Front End (jQuery, AngularJS, React), Back End (Python, Java, C#) and Database (MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres). As a member of the One Community team, Aaron is helping with the development of the Highest Good Network software by addressing bugs and implementing new features.

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One Community welcomes Yao Wang to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yao is a highly skilled software engineer with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from The University of Tulsa. With expertise in programming languages like Flask, Bootstrap, GitHub REST API, and more, Yao has conducted research on GitHub data analysis and presented his findings at the HCI International conference. He has also developed impactful projects, including a Flask-based web application for converting angles and a full-stack website for the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) with interactive features and real-time updates. Yao’s strong academic background, technical skills, and contributions to research and project development make him a valuable asset to the Highest Good Network software team.

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At One Community, we are dedicated to cultivating a world that operates harmoniously on sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Soil creation systems are integral to this endeavor, playing a vital role in the overall health of our planet. We are pioneering systems like these and more as part of evolving sustainability into a self-replicating model. Our vision extends beyond individual projects; we are establishing a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs that work together to regenerate our planet and create a world that benefits everyone.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 4th, 2023 edition (#546) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Soil Creation Systems
One Community Progress Update #546

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building soil creation systems through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Chris Cullen (Mechanical Engineer) began learning what he needed to help manage development of the Vermiculture Bathroom Designs. Chris successfully conducted a comprehensive review of the web page, focusing on its clarification of vermiculture toilet system functionality and provision of construction details, including mechanical concepts, structural analysis results, and a material cost summary. See below for the pictures.

Julia Meaney (Research and Web design) completed another week of assisting with research and web design. Julia successfully completed her tasks related to the “Door and Window Research” project. She conducted a comprehensive review of the “Murphy Bed Instructions” PDF, checking the integration of her feedback and addressing comments. Following this, she dedicated her efforts to the “Door and Window Research” Google Doc and its corresponding Spreadsheets, thoroughly scrutinizing Philip’s incorporation of her final feedback. She executed essential final formatting adjustments and content refinements while enhancing the document’s clarity for seamless site integration. Julia then focused on finalizing updates to the “Duplicable City Center Engineering” webpage, conducting a meticulous examination of equations, and cross-referencing with the source Google Doc to ensure precision. Subsequently, she made requisite format and content enhancements, along with the replacement of equation images with updated screenshots for improved clarity and legibility. Additionally, Julia expended substantial effort on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, aiming to prepare it for seamless site integration. She utilized comments to provide guidance on headings, tables of content, and other elements to enhance web clarity. She diligently addressed unfinished sections, effecting grammar, format, and organizational improvements to enhance overall content structure and flow, with ongoing follow-ups on clarifying questions as needed. See the pictures below.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week of assisting with Earth Dam Design and construction for Water Retention, Pond, and lake Creation. She provided essential insights by delivering basic inspection guidelines pertaining to embankment dam safety. These guidelines encompass a detailed breakdown of potential failure mechanisms and their corresponding consequences, offering crucial information for the assessment of embankment upstream slopes. This meticulous examination is of paramount importance in ensuring the structural stability and safety of various water retention systems, including dams and levees. Loza’s report also includes recommended actions, contributing to the proactive management and maintenance of these critical structures. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed a week of assisting with Aircrete Engineering. Yiwei dedicated her efforts to reviewing the new Aircrete team’s onboarding materials, meticulously ensuring the provision of accurate and comprehensive information crucial for their upcoming experiments. In addition to this, she actively participated in an interview with a prospective team member, offering an informative overview of project details. See some of this work in the pictures below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building soil creation systems through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) completed the design and modeling of a visitor room for the Duplicable City Center. Amiti advanced in the development of Room 4, also referred to as Retro Vogue, within the Duplicable City Center. Her design concept was inspired by the retro vogue of the Renaissance era, and she successfully crafted a comprehensive slide presentation encompassing furniture selection, renders, a carefully curated color palette, and a texture palette, ultimately culminating in the creation of an interior mood board. Additionally, Amiti diligently wrapped up a detailed cost analysis for the execution of both the room and bathroom components of Room 4, contributing valuable insights to the project. See below for the picture.

Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) prepared himself for managing and helping develop the Duplicable City Center. Arvindh successfully completed the One Community Orientation and Initial Setup, which encompassed the onboarding checklist, tutorials, and instructional videos crucial to the team management process. He diligently fulfilled the “Learn the Team Management” action item as part of the One Community Global Manager Training. See below for the pictures.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles dedicated his efforts to a specific section of the Water Conservation page, originally designated for the Water Recycling Net-zero Bathroom page but subsequently relocated in alignment with clarified project requirements. His tasks involved in-depth discussions encompassing various facets, including the Earthbag Stormwater Harvesting Design, rainfall supply analysis, water demand assessment, catchment area delineation, storage capacity assessments, and sizing considerations for both inlet peak flow discharges and pipe sizing. Furthermore, Charles made significant contributions to the design of the Net-Zero Bathroom Stormwater Storage, emphasizing an environmentally sustainable approach aimed at the collection, storage, and reuse of stormwater within residential or commercial bathroom settings. This section also provided a comprehensive overview of different types of stormwater storage tanks. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Julio continued advancing the intricate process of designing hub connectors for the fourth row, resulting in notable progress with the successful realization of several additional designs. Looking ahead, the upcoming week promises to be another phase of continued design work, with Julio maintaining his steadfast focus in this endeavor. Furthermore, the commitment to design excellence extends beyond individual efforts, as Julio prepares to update these designs for scrutiny by both Yiwei and Justin. Justin, the newest addition to the team, is poised to play a pivotal role by providing invaluable feedback and conducting crucial simulations. The pictures below provide a glimpse of the images.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Design) completed another week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. Ranran diligently addressed feedback from the previous week by making essential adjustments to the Lumion and SketchUp models. Her focus was on resolving issues, including the floating compass situated in front of the front door and rectifying overlapping ceiling elements within the kitchen area. Additionally, Ranran ensured the proper adjustment of the area where a person walks through a closed door on the second floor, successfully achieving texture matching between the doors and the wall texture. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building soil creation systems through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued our review of the open-source Highest Good Food designs. We focused on the ongoing edits and reviews of the Food Rollout Infrastructure Doc. The primary aim of these edits was to refine the entries previously posted on the One Community website, particularly those related to the tasks and details of the initial group of three and the Up to 20 people segments. To enhance clarity and precision, we made necessary adjustments by replacing the previous range factor titles with “UP TO” designations for each group. See the pictures below that are related to this.

And, Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) completed the work of assisting with Highest Good Food, focusing on thoroughly reading through the relevant information available in shared Google Docs, which comprehensively covers all aspects of the project at both microscopic and macroscopic levels. See the images below for some of his work. 

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building soil creation systems through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building soil creation systems through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed 73 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The pictures below show some of this work. 

Another core team member conducted HGN PRs testing, meticulously reviewing and assessing several pull requests. Those that were marked as fixed include PRs addressing the issue of an incorrect number of new badges assigned in the upper right corner icon of the Dashboard and another seven PRs. However, certain issues remain unresolved, including the bug where users can save summaries with fewer than 50 words after initially typing more (noted as “Tested Bug”), as well as PR 1040, which could not be fully tested due to new bugs. Additionally, she facilitated communication with a volunteer regarding PR#1084, which produced console warnings during login, reported a new bug pertaining to difficulties in adding a new WBS for admin users (as owners can do), and flagged another issue concerning password resets for accounts from the list without utilizing the Search engine. See the image below to view this work.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create a custom badge that will be awarded to the best debugging people on the Highest Good Network. He also created a header image for the Highest Good Network Phase 2 survey we have new hires complete. The pictures below show these new creations.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Manager), Anitta George Kunnappilly (Research and Management Volunteer), Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant and Team Manager), and Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support). Alyx worked on creating collages that were originally missed for blog posts numbered 543, 544, and 545, unzipping numerous folders, transferring summaries, and crafting visually engaging collages, while also preparing the groundwork for blog post 546. Simultaneously, Anitta completed the PR review for both blog posts 545 and 546, ensuring the team was informed about updated PR protocols and expanding the HGN PR tracking spreadsheet with new members and current information updates. Jamie exhibited exceptional efficiency in concluding her blog project, addressing last-minute details such as refining link titles and actively contributing to the team’s success by providing valuable feedback to fellow team members. Notably, Jamie took on the responsibility of creating an instructional video to aid Nazia in mastering collage creation, file management, and Dropbox image integration. Throughout the week, Ola demonstrated an unwavering commitment to a wide range of responsibilities within the team, including reviewing the weekly report for Highest Good Network summaries, organizing image uploads into designated folders, crafting visually appealing image collages, editing content, publishing collages on the blog, assessing team member contributions, and providing valuable insights and feedback. The collage below shows some of this work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Expressers Team’s summary this week, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes Veronica Cheng (Software Engineer), Yuri Andrade (Software Engineer), Joyce Liu (Software Engineer), and Aaron Persaud (Software Developer). Veronica conducted pull request reviews for tasks #1177, #1210, and #1203, with plans to continue pull request reviews and explore bug-fixing opportunities from the phase I bugs document. Yuri actively engaged in multiple code reviews for various pull requests (PR1185, PR1183, PR1189, PR1200, PR1999, PR1024, PR1216) in the HGN Software, addressing issues ranging from team alerts and time log formats to dashboard links and app crashes due to duplicate permissions. Joyce focused on enhancing unit tests for the HGN app, conducting QA testing in the development environment, and monitoring the #urgent-bugs-needs-all-help channel for potential tasks, alongside reviewing phase 2 documentation. Aaron addressed a “Reports” dropdown issue, resolved linting problems, and investigated and temporarily resolved a critical bug causing summaries to display inaccurately. Lastly, Tim researched the status of PR358 and PR1033, identified stale reviews blocking progress, and requested fresh testing by reviewers with open change requests. Tim also finalized work on updating the Badge Summary modals to prevent crashes and display alternate screen text when the user has no badges in their collection. The collage below shows some of this work.

The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer and Manager) and Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Team Manager). This week’s active members of this team (completing a minimum of 10 volunteer hours each) were: Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer), Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Eduardo Varjão (Frontend Developer), Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), Jacky Li (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer), Roberto Contreras (Software Engineer), Sanjana Rao (Software Engineer), Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Vinay Kumar Hanumanthappa (Software Developer), Vishvesh Sheoran (Artificial Intelligence Specialist), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer), Yao Wang (Software Engineer). YuFu Liao (Software Engineer), and Yuri Andrade (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team. ​

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One Community welcomes Tim Kent to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Tim is a full stack developer with experience building a variety of web applications. With 10 years experience as a video editing and entrepreneur and recently making a career change to software engineering, Tim demonstrates leadership on projects and takes initiative. He is excited about the potential of sustainability, and is highly motivated to contribute to environmental initiatives through software development. As a member of the One Community team, he is both a developer and team manager on the Highest Good Network software team.

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One Community welcomes Tzu Ning Chueh to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Tzu Ning completed his undergraduate studies in Financial Engineering and Actuarial Mathematics at Soochow University before pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science at Arizona State University. With experience spanning web administration, software, and analytics, Tzu Ning has acquired expertise in Python, React.js, and front-end technologies. At One Community, he’s playing an instrumental role in software development, handling Git for version control, refining React components, and resolving software issues. As a member of the Highest Good Network software team, Tzu Ning is not only helping develop the software but also continues to expand his skills for critical software development initiatives.

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One Community is focused on using natural systems of recovery as we pioneer sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living. Our innovative model is designed to become self-replicating, inspiring a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs. Embracing the principle of “The Highest Good of All,” we are dedicated to open sourcing and free sharing the complete process.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 28th, 2023 edition (#545) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is using natural systems of recovery through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed another week of assisting with Earth Dam Design and construction for Water Retention, Pond, and lake Creation. Loza incorporated a new section into the report document, focusing on dam safety programs. A Dam Safety inspection program involves a methodical assessment of dam conditions to ensure their safety. The overarching goal of such programs is disaster prevention through the proactive identification and mitigation of potential risks. Successful implementation requires close collaboration among various stakeholders, including government entities, dam proprietors, engineers, and the general public. The primary aim is to safeguard both the integrity of the structures themselves and the downstream communities they impact. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) helped with the Earthbag Village 4-Dome cluster designs. Her contributions involved refining the 3D model and identifying three notable discrepancies between the 3D and 2D files. The provided images offer visual insights into the work undertaken. See the pictures below.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed another week of assisting with Earthbag Village. Vidhi dedicated her efforts to the 4 Dome flythrough project, focusing on character animations and optimization within Unreal Engine. She strategically positioned animated characters in the scene, meticulously refining their gestures using Unreal Engine’s sequencer to align with the environmental and interpersonal context. Vidhi also prioritized project performance by implementing Levels Of Detail for foliage elements, effectively minimizing detail at greater distances. Additionally, she undertook optimization tasks in lighting systems to ensure efficient project performance. See below for some of the pictures.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is using natural systems of recovery through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) completed the design and modeling of a visitor room for the Duplicable City Center. Amiti made significant strides in advancing the development of the retro-themed visitor room within Duplicable City. Notably, she finalized the visual representation of option 2 for the room, drawing inspiration from the retro vogue of the Renaissance era. Amiti’s contributions encompassed diverse aspects of the design process, including material selection, furniture design, color coordination, and paint palette curation. She successfully completed the design model, capturing the authentic essence of the 1990s retro movement. Simultaneously, Amiti initiated comprehensive work on Room 9 of Duplicable City, with a focus on Japanese Zen garden rooms. This involved intricate planning, thoughtful interior furniture selection, and meticulous garden design. Additionally, Amiti concluded the necessary files for the Tranquility-themed room (Room 5), showcasing her versatile proficiency across varied design endeavors. See below for the pictures.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles dedicated his efforts to enhancing the Water Recycling Net-zero Bathroom page, introducing a specialized section titled “Net-Zero Bathroom Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting Design Details.” Seamlessly integrated within the page’s content flow, the new section found its precise position between the Net-zero Bathroom Design Detail section, illustrated by Figure 13 – Elevation East, Revit graphic, and the subsequent Resources section. The added material delved comprehensively into the realm of the Barrels Water Storage System Theory and Analysis, encompassing foundational network nodes, a system of equations, and the Newton-Paphson model. This inclusive depiction encompassed various facets, including the elucidation of storage tank fittings, their diverse types, and the corresponding distribution systems. Charles also conducted a meticulous review of the equations featured on the Duplicable City Center Engineering page, identifying and addressing several errors. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Julio undertook the intricate task of modeling hub connectors for the fourth row of the project. Building upon the process from the previous third-row design, he followed a similar pattern that entails crafting unique models for each individual node. An intriguing revelation surfaced as the fourth row displayed a reduction in the number of nodes compared to the third row, suggesting the potential for a more streamlined workflow and accelerated progress. In the upcoming days, Julio’s focus will remain on meticulously developing these hub connectors, ensuring their precise alignment with the project’s specifications and design standards. The pictures below provide a glimpse of the images.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Design) completed another week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. Ranran conducted a comprehensive review of the Lumion model, meticulously verifying its accuracy. Additionally, she dedicated time to the thorough examination of two videos. In an attempt to expedite the rendering process, she experimented with lower resolutions; however, the Lumion model consistently experienced crashes during these rendering attempts, necessitating further troubleshooting and investigation. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is using natural systems of recovery through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued our review of the open-source Highest Good Food designs. We focused on tasks related to the Food Rollout Infrastructure Doc. Our responsibilities encompassed editing and reviewing entries pertaining to the arrival of the initial group of three individuals, as well as subsequent groups ranging from 20 to 50 participants. Additionally, we assessed job description links and associated tasks linked with the initial three groups, ensuring accuracy and alignment. See the pictures below that are related to this.

And, Gregory Quach (Data Enterer for Chef/Culinary) continued working on the Transition Kitchen, focusing his efforts on Google Sheets tasks. His primary objective centered around an in-depth analysis of the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out project, with a specific emphasis on the seamless integration of an aggregate function to facilitate column addition. Despite initial challenges, Gregory adeptly resolved the encountered issues and successfully implemented the aggregate function. See the images below for some of his work.  

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is using natural systems of recovery through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is using natural systems of recovery through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed 68 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. See the pictures below show some of this work.

Another core team member conducted HGN PRs testing. She thoroughly reviewed and assessed several pull requests, specifically PRs 737, 1085, 1080, 1097, 1102, 1060, 1093, and 1108, marking them as fixed after verification. She also identified and documented certain issues that remained unresolved, including: PR#949, where the owner user’s suggestion count is consistently displayed as 0 even though the Admin can see multiple suggestions; PR#1084, which produced three warnings upon initial login; PR#1098, which resulted in the absence of “Show All Tasks” or “Truncate Tasks” buttons; and PR#1104, related to PR#1098. Additionally, she successfully configured an account to test the misassignment of badges when no hours are required per week, addressing the matter in PR#349. See the image below to view this work.

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) helped organize and pass along our analytics details to the new Marketing Team working on our Adwords and Analytics campaigns. The pictures below show some of this work.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Jamie and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist and Manager), Anitta George Kunnappilly (Research and Management Volunteer), Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant and Team Manager), and Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support). Alyx undertook various tasks for the blog, encompassing pulling, reviewing, and editing summaries and images, alongside creating collages and organizing messages. Additionally, Alyx ensured the alignment of individuals’ work hours with One Community on the blog and recognized the need for essential edits in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) terms and image attributes. Anitta commenced her inaugural week by joining the PR review team, engaging diligently with provided documents and supplementary videos to enhance her understanding of her role. Throughout the week, Anitta meticulously updated the HGN spreadsheet and folder, while also categorizing PRs with color codes. Jamie accomplished the final refinements of her blog post, meticulously integrating crucial SEO components and annotations for each image. Simultaneously, she proactively initiated the groundwork for an upcoming blog post to meet the team’s ambitious deadlines, displaying steadfast dedication. Similarly, Ola demonstrated diligence by successfully completing assigned tasks, subjecting her work and that of Alyx and Jamie to thorough reviews, incorporating error rectifications and feedback. Ola promptly embraced feedback on her own task, effecting necessary adjustments in response. The collage below shows some of this work.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Expressers Team’s summary this week, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Veronica Cheng (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Gary Balogh (Software Engineer), Yuri Andrade (Software Engineer), “Sola” Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer), Aaron Persaud (Software Developer), and Joyce Liu (Software Engineer). Veronica transitioned into her role on the development team by acquainting herself with the bugs and essential features document, proceeding to perform five comprehensive pull request reviews, including frontend tasks #1169, #1155, #1166, and #1172, and backend task #484. She expressed intentions to delve into unit testing studies and to continue engaging in further pull request assessments. Olga accomplished the setup of a comprehensive unit testing document and minor updates to the HGN Unit Testing Guide, concluding task 255 by reconciling HoursByCategory with total SavedTangibleHrs and totalTangibleHrs through a dedicated function and a subsequent draft pull request. Gary undertook comprehensive reviews of multiple pull requests, evaluating changes such as UI enhancements to the Edit Link Modal, bug resolutions for the Task Notification Modal, integration of team code capabilities into the Weekly Summaries Report page, formatting adjustments to the Tasks table on the dashboard, date uniformity modifications, and optimization for the Weekly Summaries Report page. Yuri conducted code reviews for various pull requests (PR1140, PR1147, PR1126, PR472, PR1155, PR1166, PR1163) in the HGN Software, addressing permissions updates, style adjustments, user creation enhancements, leaderboard animation, CSS alterations, and new permission functionalities. Sola focused on resolving branch conflicts between PR 1033 and PR 358 and initiated a pull request (PR479) for the “Create NEW USER function, if blue square added, delete and send special email” task, alongside offering testing and approval for PR481 and addressing issues with displaying moved time entries. Aaron’s contributions involved PR486 rectifying inaccuracies in displaying moved time entries, reintegration of linting into the workflow, and the resolution of linting discrepancies in the Timelog component through PR1179. Joyce concentrated on enhancing unit tests for the HGN app, conducting QA testing in the development environment, and monitoring the #urgent-bugs-needs-all-help channel for potential tasks. The collage below shows some of this work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

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